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the frankfort station | April 12, 2018 | 49<br />
BASEBALL<br />
Lockport Sectional loaded with area teams<br />
JEFF VORVA<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Providence Catholic’s<br />
unprecedented baseball<br />
title reign ended last year<br />
when Sandburg knocked the<br />
Celtics off at the Class 4A<br />
Homewood-Flossmoor Sectional.<br />
The Celtics had a postseason<br />
23-game winning streak<br />
snapped. They had won three<br />
consecutive state titles, which<br />
had never been done before<br />
in the history of the Illinois<br />
High School Association.<br />
If the Celtics want to win<br />
BASKETBALL<br />
CJB sixth graders win three tournaments<br />
STAFF REPORT<br />
The Cardinal Joseph<br />
Bernardin sixth grade boys<br />
basketball team won three<br />
tournaments this season en<br />
route to a 32-7 campaign.<br />
The Cardinals capped the<br />
season off by winning the<br />
South Suburban League<br />
championship. They also<br />
won the Ridge Park and<br />
Queen of Martyrs tournaments<br />
earlier in the season.<br />
another state title in 2018,<br />
they have a rough road,<br />
which includes many area<br />
teams standing in the way.<br />
The IHSA announced its assignments<br />
and the Celtics<br />
plus six other 22nd Century<br />
Media teams will duke it<br />
out in the 21-team Lockport<br />
Sectional. Lockport, Lincoln-Way<br />
East,Lincoln-Way<br />
Central, Lincoln-Way West,<br />
Sandburg and Andrew are<br />
also in the mix. Providence<br />
is the only area team that<br />
will lost a regional.<br />
Other teams in the sectional<br />
are Eisenhower,<br />
Marist, Bloom, Marian,<br />
Crete-Monee, Homewood-<br />
Flossmoor, Thornton, Joliet<br />
Central, Joliet West,<br />
Thornton Fractional South,<br />
Shepard, Stagg, Romeoville<br />
and Thornwood.<br />
In the April 2 edition of<br />
the Prep Baseball Report<br />
state rankings, six teams<br />
from the Lockport Sectional<br />
are in the top 25. Lincoln-<br />
Way East was ranked sixth,<br />
Andrew 13th, Lockport<br />
14th, Sandburg 17th, Providence<br />
22nd and Marist 25th.<br />
That means at least two of<br />
those teams will not win one<br />
of the four regional titles.<br />
In Class 3A, Tinley Park<br />
is in the 10-team sub-sectional<br />
of the Ottawa Sectional.<br />
The Titans are joined<br />
by Thornton Fractional<br />
North, Chicago Agricultural<br />
Science, Morgan Park,<br />
Hillcrest, Evergreen Park,<br />
Illiana Christian, Lemont,<br />
Bremen and Oak Forest.<br />
Seeds will be announced<br />
on May 8. The regionals<br />
begin May 21 and the state<br />
finals are June 8-9.--<br />
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s sixth-grade basketball team finished 32-7 and won three tournaments this season. Photo<br />
submitted<br />
Members of the team are<br />
Orland Park’s Alec Hickey,<br />
Josh Montalvo and Jack<br />
Nolan,Tinley Park’s Matt<br />
Cotter, Homer Glen’s Logan<br />
Stafford, Frankfort’s<br />
Aiden Cech and Corey Hansen,<br />
Chicago Heights’ Issac<br />
Krabbe and Christo Krabbe,<br />
Monee’s Chris McGrath<br />
and Crete’s Zach Rhein<br />
The coaches are Joe<br />
Hickey, Mario Montalvo<br />
and Russ Cech.<br />
SOFTBALL<br />
Lincoln-Way East player Alex Storako rounds the bases<br />
during a game against Lincoln-Way Central on March 29.<br />
22nd century media file photo<br />
Local squads aiming<br />
for postseason success<br />
JEFF VORVA<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
Lincoln-Way East’s softball<br />
team dominated regional<br />
and sectional action en<br />
route to a second-place finish<br />
in Illinois High School<br />
Association Class 4A state<br />
tournament in 2017.<br />
East outscored Thornton<br />
Fractional South, Minooka,<br />
Joliet West and Lockport<br />
by a combined score of 26-<br />
3.<br />
Will the Griffins be able to<br />
breeze in the early part of the<br />
postseason again?<br />
The other teams in the 19-<br />
team Joliet West Sectional<br />
will have something to say<br />
about that.<br />
The Griffins will join<br />
22nd Century Media-area<br />
teams Lockport, Lincoln-<br />
Way Central, Lincoln-Way<br />
West and Andrew in that<br />
sectional.<br />
Others in the tournament<br />
are Bolingbrook, Bloom,<br />
Crete-Monee, Homewood-<br />
Flossmoor, Thornton, Joliet<br />
Central, Joliet West,<br />
Thornton Fractional South,<br />
Minooka, Plainfield Central,<br />
Plainfield East, Plainfield<br />
South, Romeoville and<br />
Thornwood.<br />
Sandburg is heading to a<br />
19-team sectional that does<br />
not have a host yet. Other<br />
teams in that sectional are<br />
Morton, Eisenhower, Reavis,<br />
Curie, Kelly, Kennedy,<br />
Marist, Mother McAuley,<br />
Hinsdale South, Proviso<br />
West, Hinsdale Central, Lyons,<br />
Oak Lawn, Richards,<br />
Shepard, Stagg, Riverside-<br />
Brookfield and Argo.<br />
In Class 3A, Providence<br />
Catholic and Tinley Park are<br />
in a sub-sectional at the 20-<br />
team Ottawa Sectional.<br />
Other teams in the subsectional<br />
are Coal City, Hillcrest,<br />
Joliet Catholic Academy,<br />
LaSalle-Peru, Morris,<br />
Ottawa, Plano and Sandwich.<br />
Seeds will be announced<br />
on May 8. The regionals<br />
begin May 21 and the state<br />
finals are June 8-9.